. History of lace. esteemed. Located on the site of a royal chateau, the pro-perty of the Due de Penthievre, himself a most enthusiasticlover of fine point, as his wardrobe accounts testify, the 1^ Arch. Xat. X. 222 HISTORY OF LACE lace-makers received, no doubt, much patronage and en-courao^ement from the seis^neur of the domain. In thefamily picture by Yanloo, known as the Tasse de Chocolat,containing portraits of the Due de Penthievre, his son, and Fis. Dentellk a la Vierge the unfortunate Princesse de Lamballe, together with hisdaughter, soon to be Duchess of Orleans, the duk
. History of lace. esteemed. Located on the site of a royal chateau, the pro-perty of the Due de Penthievre, himself a most enthusiasticlover of fine point, as his wardrobe accounts testify, the 1^ Arch. Xat. X. 222 HISTORY OF LACE lace-makers received, no doubt, much patronage and en-courao^ement from the seis^neur of the domain. In thefamily picture by Yanloo, known as the Tasse de Chocolat,containing portraits of the Due de Penthievre, his son, and Fis. Dentellk a la Vierge the unfortunate Princesse de Lamballe, together with hisdaughter, soon to be Duchess of Orleans, the duke, who isholding in his hand a medal, enclosed in a case, wears a laceruffle of Valenciennes pattern, probably the fabric of his ownpeople (Fig. 102). NORMANDY 223 Arthur Youno:, in 1788, states the wages of the lace-makers seldom exceed from seven or eight sous per day ;some few, he adds, may earn fifteen. Previous to theKevolution, the lace made at Dieppe amounted to 400,000francs annually. But Normandy experienced the shock of1790. Dieppe had already suffered from the introductionof foreign lace when the Eevolution broke out in all its points of Havre, with the fabrics of Pont-lEveque (Dep. FiR. 102.
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